PHIL 2923 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer, Glorious Revolution
1 Jun 2016
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John locke (1632-1704): life, liberty, property: introduction. 0. 1 locke"s general intellectual influence: the empiricist school of philosophy. 0. 3 the intellectual context: robert filmer and the divine right of kings. What it can legitimately do is constrained by these rights: the state of nature overview. 1. 1 like hobbes, locke seems to conceive of the state of nature as primarily hypothetical. 1. 2 human beings are fundamentally equal in the state of nature. = equality of status, not just mutual vulnerability. 1. 3 two central differences with hobbes: there is a law of nature that is valid in the state of nature, there are genuine natural rights, the law of nature. 2. 1 key idea: since we are all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions . ( 6) Whatever reasons i have to preserve myself are also reasons not to harm others.
